Theodori Balthasaris, Med. Doct. De dosibus medicamentorum diatribe
Subtitle: qua illae juxta medicinae practicae pariter ac mathesios principia expenduntur
Publisher: Sumtibus Joh. Andr. Lorberi, bibliop.
Published: 1719
Place of publication: Erlangae [Erlangen, Germany]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Pharmaceutical arithmetic; Vegetable Materia medica; Medical Botany
Other titles: De dosibus medicamentorum diatribe.
Notes: Another issue was printed in Leipzig in the same year.

The work includes notes on the use of china bark (quinine) sassafras and sarsaparilla  (p. 45, 46, 122, 135); Copaiba balsam (p. 102) South American leguminous trees (genus Copaifera); Corticis Peruviana (Peruvian bark or Jesuits bark, Cincona; p. 100-101), and  "Chinachinae seu cortices Peruviani" (p. 46)

Signatures: )(⁴ ()(1 verso blank) A-L⁸

Title page printed in red and black; engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Short title catalogue of eighteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine, 29.

Purchase; 2016; 17-059.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary paper-covered boards.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.